Category: North Korea

Among the four human rights resolutions on country situations to be adopted by the General Assembly this year is the resolution on human rights violations in North Korea. UN Watch welcomes the resolution, and is gratified that it includes, for the first time, specific mention to the plight of North Korean …

Help Innocent Victims—Take Action: Send North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-un to the ICC In North Korea, thousands are kept in concentration camps, tortured, and starved to death. Speak out for the human rights of these innocent victims. The 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korea concluded that “the gravity, …

UN Watch pursues global campaign after U.S. imposes sanctions on dictator GENEVA, July 7, 2016 — UN Watch today called on all countries to follow the U.S. announcement and impose personal sanctions targeting North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Although the international community already applies a range of …

Statement by UN Watch ID: SR on Human Rights in DPRK Agenda Item 4, UNHRC 31st Session 14 March 2016 Delivered by Ms. Kayoung Kim Thank you Mr. President. I am honored to make this statement on behalf of UN Watch. My name is Kayoung Kim and I am manager of International Affairs at NK Watch, an organization …

GENEVA, March 14, 2016 — UN Watch, together with North Korea Watch (NK Watch), held a meeting today on the parlous state of human rights in North Korea, with a particular focus on the human rights of women and people with disabilities. The meeting aimed to raise awareness on the international stage of the …

The Third Committee of the UN General Assembly voted to condemn human rights violations in North Korea yesterday. The resolution titled “Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” was passed by the vast majority of the human rights-focused committee, 112 countries voted …

On behalf of UN Watch, Yeonmi Park, 21-year-old North Korean survivor and human rights activist, addressed the UNHRC. Above: Ms. Park presented a copy of her forthcoming memoir In Order to Live (Penguin) to Australia’s Justice Michael Kirby, former head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on North Korean …

UN Watch oral statement UN Human Rights Council, 30th Session Panel on Human Rights in DPRK Delivered by Yeonmi Park Thank you Mr. President, My name is Yeonmi Park. I’m 21 years old. I was born in 1993 in North Korea, an unimaginable place, with so much suffering and no freedom. As a free person here …